SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Less than 24 hours after having surgery on his broken right hamate bone, Diamondbacks right fielder Corbin Carroll was back at work at Salt River Fields.
With a cast on his right wrist, Carroll was seen doing his plyometric throwing drills after visiting with the team's medical staff.
"I'm not surprised," Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said of Carroll's presence Thursday. "That's how he's wired, and that's what makes him so special. It's just who he is and why we all love him so much. There's a process and there's a plan for him."
Carroll suffered the broken hamate Tuesday during a round of live batting practice. He homered on a pitch and then fouled off the next pitch and felt the discomfort in his hand immediately.
"Took a swing and didn't feel good," Carroll said. "Then just kind of moved my hand around and felt something wiggling around in there, and figured I should get it checked out."
Carroll will continue to do what he can to stay ready while the hand heals. He can run and keep his legs strong in the weight room, and he can also continue throwing. The one thing he can't do, however, is hit.
Being ready for Opening Day might be a possibility, but if not then he should return soon after. That's the good news. The bad news is that he will not be able to play for Team USA in next month's World Baseball Classic.
That was something that Carroll had been wanting to do, and as he spoke to reporters, two new red, white and blue Rawlings gloves were on his locker chair behind him.
"Very disappointed," Carroll said. "It was something I was really looking forward to, [getting to] spend time around such quality players and getting to represent the country obviously would have been one of the biggest honors of my career. So definitely bummed to miss it, but at the same time happy that this isn't something that's happening midseason and I miss a bunch of games."
Carroll is one of three prominent players to have surgery in the past several days to fix broken hamate bones. Francisco Lindor of the Mets and Jackson Holliday of the Orioles suffered similar injuries.
"I think it's the physics of it," Carroll said. "You've got a lot of lot of force going in your hand [when you swing] and the way that hamate, that hook, is shaped, that bat knob can dig in there and pop that thing loose sometimes. Not the first person this is going to happen to, not the last. Definitely unfortunate, but part of the game."